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The Rose Prince Anon Captain
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Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2016 3:09 pm
Dear Fanonymous Guild Member,
You are cordially invited to attend a tea party at the centre of the Rose Palace Garden Maze. (Hint: the pattern is right, right, left, keep following that and you'll be through in no time.)
The tea party shall begin on Friday 19 February and end on Monday 29 February. It's a very long tea party. Don't worry, the plates, coffee and teapots are all self replenishing and there shall be plenty of food to go around.
Can't wait to see you there.
Yours,
The Rose Prince
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Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2016 3:46 pm
 The invitation slips through your letterbox inside a golden envelope sealed by a circular red wax seal bearing two interlocking roses. A tea party, held at the Rose Palace. Well, naturally you feel almost compelled to go, it's been so long since everybody last got together...
The day arrives and you are dressed in your best, or at least your most presentable, and you make your journey to the palace. There are signs at the door, and the kindly guards are there to point you in the right direction if you get a little lost. Through the gardens you trot, enjoying the sweet smell of the flora as you go, beautifully pruned roses of all colours, calla lilies, forget-me-nots, masterworts and orchids of varying size, a paved path leading the way to the maze.
You falter, was it right, right, left, or left, left, right? You consult the invitation and follow the maze, luckily there are well placed signs again to lead you along the way.
Finally you make it to the centre to see beautiful tabletops adorned with food. There are cakes, tarts, macaroons, waffles, cookies, scones, biscuits, pancakes, crepes, bowls of bon bons and different sweeties, brownies, you name it, there's a plate or bowl or cake stand holding it. As for the tea, there's chai, peppermint, ginger, ginseng, darjeeling, earl grey, raspberry, green, lemon, honey, camomile and many more. All the teapots are helpfully sitting beside labels. There are finger sandwiches, daintily cut and the smell of all this delectable food has you salivating before you can help it.
Welcome to the Tea Party.
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The Rose Prince Anon Captain
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The Rose Prince Anon Captain
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Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2016 4:14 pm
The Prince sits, munching on a tuna and cucumber finger sandwich, enjoying the sensation of sun on his face and neck as he awaits the first arrivals. "I hope the servants remembered the confetti cannons." He murmurs to nobody in particular, "What event of mine is complete without confetti cannons?"
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Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2016 5:15 pm
Alliecat looked at invite as Patches's tail could be seen wagging above her head as the kitten laid on top of her snow white curls. He rarely ever left her side as he saw her as his mother or guardian. Blinking once then twice she caught the site of a sign further down the maze as she darted towards it. 'At least I'm going the right way.. I'm so horrible at mazes.' She thought to herself before nearly tripping out a stray vine that hadn't been cut. Patches went flying as the poor cat thankfully landed on the grass near the Prince. "Patches..?" She called out before finding her way through the rest of the maze, hoping her cat wasn't hurt. "Pat-.... Woah..." She came to a stop when she saw the adorable display in the center of the garden maze.
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Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2016 5:16 pm
A curious lass enters the maze following the directions of her invitation but hesitating before breaching that final turn of the maze. It's been terribly long since she's talked to anyone in particular from this region. She inhales turns the last corner and waves almost sheepishly.
"Hello?"
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Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2016 6:45 pm
Having the invitation held tight to be sure she wouldn't get lost, the blue elf walked tentatively through the maze to get to the party. She swore she saw what appeared to be a cannon past one of the turns, her steps had hastened a bit. At last the lovely spread before declared in fancy fashion she had arrived. "Oh how pretty~ " The tea sets warranted closer adoring inspection, so she inched toward the nearest table with an excited wiggle.
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Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2016 9:14 pm
If there's one thing that will bring a Werehog to the party, it's free food! Monster wove himself through the maze after getting lost a few times before finally making it to the tea party proper, and oh, the treasure trove of royal food! He can say hi to friends after his plate is full, so he beelines for the sweets and towers as many as he can on top of each other in a leaning tower of gluttony.
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Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2016 9:31 pm
Nyx wanders off to a table and sits down to enjoy a nice cup of tea and watch as the other guests filed in. It was nice seeing her friends from here once more. It brought a smile to her face as she hid it behind a gentle sip of the tea.
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Posted: Sat Feb 20, 2016 6:15 pm
All the magical tea sets have the elf's eyes all a sparkle. So many pretty sets, and oh hey who might this be having tea? "Nyx, it's been ages!" With a bounce, she skitters over to the table Nyx is at. "How have you been? Also, where have you been, i-if I may ask." She blinks seeing a plate with a growing tower of food and gestures at it. "Say, who is making that impressive pile?"
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Posted: Sat Feb 20, 2016 7:07 pm
"Hello Sweetie, I've been off renewing myself. I've been a bit distant from many things this last couple of months. I'm not quite sure how long it has been since I really stopped keeping touch with the people from around here and I'm quite supervised the invitation arrived for me." Nyx mused off off for a while glad she was still invited to this fabulously pretty kingdom region when she had the whim. "Besides my vanishing and all I've actually for the most part been feeling a lot better. I've dropped a good amount of the stressful baggage I used to carry." Looking off in the direction of the growing pile Nyx had to stifle a giggle. "I do believe the growing food pile is Mister M."
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Posted: Sat Feb 20, 2016 8:19 pm
Unno had kept the invitation close to him, trying to make his way around the maze, but had to put it away when he ran into a wall. He repeated the pattern to himself and finally made it out. He looked around and finally murmured, "tea, where are you?"as he made his way.
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Posted: Sun Feb 21, 2016 10:05 am
It was the cat he saw first, leaping through the air and landing on his feet, the other animal caused a little face to peer out from underneath one of the table cloths and a high pitched barking was heard as Butterscotch trotted over, tail wagging to see his new friend. "Butterscotch!" Prince said, rushing forward and scooping up his canine friend in case the cat was afraid.
"Hi there! My first guest, welcome!" He said as he saw the owner trailing behind slightly, "Is this yours?" He gestured to the cat as Butterscotch clambered up his shoulders and into his hair. "Ah! Good day Nyx!" Prince said with a smile, happy to see Nyx. It had been a little while after all. Upon seeing the wonderful Gigi, Princes eyes lit up. It was always nice to see an old faithful, "Gigi, how are you? I knew you'd come." He said, "Please, help yourself to as much food as you like."Monsters attendance was actually the reason the plates were self-replenishing. There was even a plate of chilli dogs in the corner, "Oh Monster? As much as I hold your simple tastes in disdain, there is a plate of chilli dogs over there." He said, pointing over to the table. Upon seeing Unno enter the centre of the maze he smiled, again lovely to see someone he hadn't seen for so long. "Unno!" He called, "There's tea a-plenty over here." A gesture to a table covered in teapots with their labels beside them to advise of the flavour.
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The Rose Prince Anon Captain
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Posted: Sun Feb 21, 2016 10:49 am
Having taken a break from his medical duties and from kidnapping people, things had gotten rather quiet in the surgeon's neck of the woods. Then Voyager brought the mail in and Sciurus' attention immediately went to the shinny, fancy item with a seal. He studied the envelope and it's contents intently, both the materials and the message, and guzzled his coffee thoughtfully. "Well? Are we gonna go?" Voyager poked at the invitation; It was one of the fanciest things the Plymouth had ever seen. "Hm. Why not? I'm afraid the hospital's grown rather boring lately. It wouldn't hurt to have a medic along to a large gathering either. Although we will both have to be well behaved." It had taken a while to find the place driving, but eventually doctor and van stood before the maze, taking in the gardens in awe. Even Sciurus was impressed by the sheer size and variety. "Oooooooooh~ Mom's happy here! There's so mu- DIRT PILE!!!" Voyager immediately ran off to go bury himself before Sciurus could stop him. "What the- VOYAGER!! GET BACK HERE!!" Sciurus sighed. "Leave it to me to be executed upon arrival...Five-year-old..." Grumbling, the surgeon headed into the maze. After a few wrong turns, Sciurus finally found the gathering. "Should any incident occur, let it be known I came here by bus."
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Posted: Sun Feb 21, 2016 12:55 pm
"Good day to you as well Xavier, I hope you've been well or at least well enough in the time we haven't seen each other. I see that Butterscotch has been well." Nyx smiled remembering the pup from a few years back with a bit of a twinkle in her eye. She did her best to hid it by closing her eyes and sipping more of her tea.
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The Rose Prince Anon Captain
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Posted: Sun Feb 21, 2016 1:32 pm
The Prince was as glad for more guests as anyone, although he did cringe slightly at the doctors comment, wondering what the cleaners were going to have to deal with. "Awesome to see you, as always." He said, "But no deaths at this party."The royal smiled a little, "I've been well. And yes Butterscotch has been very well." Too well in fact, the dog was the best fed in the kingdom, he was beginning to get a little pooch. The dog jumped down courageously from his head and bounded onto the ground beside him, happy to run underneath all the table legs. He sat down beside Nyx and helped himself to a bakewell tart, "So what have you been doing?"
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